Classified because of prescription, this preliminary inquiry had been opened after the filing of a sexual assault complaint by the Fanny Agostini journalist.
Le Monde and AFP
The Sexual Aggression Survey for Jean-Jacques Bourdin has been classified without a continuation, announced Friday the journalist in a statement transmitted by his lawyer, M e Christian Saint-Palais. This survey was subsequently classified on April 7 for the public action prescription, confirmed the parquet of Paris, requested by the France-Press agency (AFP).
This “ranking is not a surprise since the complaint was actually prescribed”, reacted M e Laure Heinich, a lawyer of Fanny Agostini, complainant, regretting however having been notified “D ‘No act of investigation, nor by police officers or parquet “.
“I have always firmly challenged the facts that were reproached for me,” recalls in his communiqué the journalist, who had been dismissed from the bFMTV and RMC antennas on January 23, a few days after the opening of the investigation . “I denounce the public instrumentalization of this procedure and deplores the serious attacks that have been brought to my personal life and in my professional life,” he adds.
Facts dating back to 2013 and the 1980s
On January 19, a few days after the revelation of a complaint against Mr. Bourdin of a former journalist BFM-TV and RMC for facts dating back to 2013, the parquet of Paris had indicated that he opened a preliminary inquiry for Sexual aggression, entrusted to the Commissioner of the XVI e arrondissement.
mid-February, the journalist Fanny Agostini, a former weather presenter of RMC – BFM-TV, then passed by “Thalassa”, had revealed in Mediapart to be at the origin of this complaint. According to her, the facts would have been produced in 2013 in Corsica, Calvi.
A few days later, a second woman had also filed a sexual assault complaint, harassment and sexual exhibition, accusing Mr. Bourdin of facts at the end of the 1980s.